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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
5
A glossy dream guide interprets nightly music visions as good signs. Happiness, money, and news of a cheerful sort are foretold for loved ones, with weddings, harmonious family life, and fortune linked to various dream instruments and events.
The piece celebrates women in advertising outlining paths from art to writing and agency management. It notes women are prominent in design, copy, and decision making across firms, stressing training, cost, psychology, and truth in modern advertising. California is highlighted for its strong industry.
A rural speaker states some have land while all share sun and woods. The verse contrasts the boss in town who owns maps and dollars with the speaker who simply breathes pine and mist, asserting the woods and sun belong to all. The poem reflects class tension over land and nature.
This note highlights home made confections using maple syrup and honey. It includes a fondant method boiled to soft ball stage and pecan candy prepared by boiling sugar with water then mixing in pecan meats, cooled on a marble slab and stored dry and cool.
Claudine questions Alondie's fuss while Theloise notes Slick spends freely. speculation swirls about his possible turn to farming or crime. A Kansas City Star aside mentions alcohol stains on fur furniture treated with camphor spirits.
Instructions describe cooking shelled peanuts with brown sugar and butter, boiling ten minutes after the first bubble, then stirring in nuts and marking squares before it cools hard.
Three cupfuls of molasses and one cupful of brown sugar are heated for three minutes then boiled until hard in water. Butter one tablespoon, dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoon of boiling water and add. Remove from heat, pour onto buttered plates to cool, then pull when cool enough to handle.
Instructions describe measuring two cupfuls of sugar and two thirds of a cupful of milk in a granite utensil and stirring until dissolved. The fragment ends mid step indicating continuation of a cooking process.
In a playful quip a cartoon mouse wonders if cheese prices ever drop. The line hints at inflation style humor without economic data.
The piece traces the origin of foolscap as the crown watermarked paper used in royal sheets. It notes Charles I era efforts to increase revenue and grant privileges while the crown’s coat of arms appeared on paper. Cromwell’s parliament mocked the monarchy and replaced the coat of arms with a fool’s cap and bells. The term persisted in journals, and the original paper size 17 by 1A inches remained linked to the foolscap name, despite later watermark changes.
Boil mixture until a soft ball forms in cold water then remove from heat. Stir in four tablespoonfuls peanut butter until melted and creamy. Heat briefly, add one teaspoon vanilla and one third cup seedless raisins. Turn into a greased pan while smooth, then cut into squares.
Instructions describe peeling oranges and shredding rind, weighing with sugar, rolling in warmed sugar, and drying in the oven. The method involves roiling until tender, changing water twice, boiling with peel, then coating in primnnated sugar and drying, stored in a tight container.
A London Chronicle correspondence argues over who made the first sauce and if Chinese innovation predates European varieties. It notes a restaurant ecard calling a brown liquid “the oldest sauce in the world” and ponders ties to Worcester and Yorkshire sauces in beef and chops.
Ralph Greenleaf, world pro pocket billiards champion, lost his cue returning from an exhibition in Brooklyn. The cue, worth about 15 dollars, is being sought with a 200 dollar reward. It was the cue he has used since age nine, given by his father to begin his rise.
The Christian Science Monitor notes Melbourne football crowds have heated encounters with barrackers. Umpires demanded six police officers escort an umpire off the ground after a match and two mounted police to assist, with one club boycotting the ground, highlighting security amid popular sport in Victoria and South Australia.
Brooklyn Nationals president Charley Cbb bets confirms Wilbert Robinson will manage the club for three years on his terms. The announcement notes a handsome bonus for winning the 1920 league championship.
Exterminator ranks second among leading money winners this year, with Man o War far ahead and Boniface third. Step Lightly, Futurity winner, heads the distaff side, as the top ten money earners include Man o War, Exterminator, Boniface and Paul Jones among others.
Sacramento restarts boxing events under new code requiring soft tape on fighters hands and limiting seconds to one per contestant. The rule change aims to improve safety and regulate corner activity at matches.
President Jill Dunn of Cleveland states the team will not enlarge their park for 1921. He says he expects the Indians to continue performing well despite the unchanged facilities.
Films of the historic Wind sor race between Man o War and Sir Garton cost producers more than they usually pay for a Mary Vickford picture.
Kansas City club sells shortstop Bruce Hartford to Shreveport of the Texas League. Hartford joined Kansas City from Seattle early in the 1920 season.
Birmingham Barons second baseman Tommy Stevenson did not miss an inning in both 1919 and 1920 seasons, setting a Southern league record for consecutive innings played.
Kempton aims to build a star backfield under coach Tad Joel after Thorn Murphy replaced him at quarterback following Boston College disaster.
The Minneapolis team of the Association Journists made a player swap with Oklahoma City in the Western league. Pitcher Rumsey and outfielders Pitt and M Harper move to the Millers in exchange for players to be named later.
Cincinnati club officials deny any negotiations for infielder Goldie Rapp of the St. Paul American Association team. The denial follows rumors linking the Reds to the veteran player as a potential roster addition.
The New York National League club announced the option release of pitcher Reynolds Kelly and infielder George Armstrong to the St. Paul American Association club.
Citizens of Jacksonville remain loyal to the Brooklyn Dodgers and invite President Ebbets to train the team there again next spring. Several Saints stars from the pennant winners are expected to attend big league camps, including Coombe app Milter and Margrave. Army Playing Football New England army polo teams schedule matches. Salt Lake City forms athletic club similar to San Francisco’s Olympic club and Chicago’s Miinois Athletic club. Chinese leap year adds a complete month every third year replacing an extra day.
Infielder Douglas Baird has been released by the New York Giants to the Indianapolis A. A. club. The move places Baird within the farm system as he seeks major league opportunity.
A campaign led by Paris sporting papers argues against holding Olympic games in rotating cities or countries. It supports Paris as a permanent host, notes Lausanne Congress in 1921 and criticizes Baron de Coubertin's idea of global rotation while defending the existing city allotment system.
William A. Brady Tex Rickard and Charles B Cochrane will jointly promote a half million dollar boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. The bid sets Carpentier for 200000 and Dempsey for 300000 with a ten to fifteen round bout between February 1 and July 1921.
The fragment questions nature creating a new dominant power replacing the weaker order, referencing Man o War Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey and the Indians as symbols of a rising force. The text suggests a dramatic shift in strength with a looming new era of power.
The renowned coach Gil Doble is famed for top teams but has not previously produced standout punters. This season he now has one punter emerge from Cornell, marking a rare development in his program.
Merwin Jacobson and Jack Bentley of the Baltimore club prefer remaining in the International League, despite offers from The Teds for $50,000 and interest from Comiskey 2450.
Glen Warner's Panthers seek a two year contract with Dartmouth as they move past trouble with Georgia Tech. Panthers aim to secure stability after the incident and set plans for upcoming season with the Ivy League opponent.
Columbus football players pay tribute to Chick Starley, a Buckeye standout, by naming their youth team the Marley Juniors in his memory.
Princeton defeated Yale 21 to 84 on a six mile course. The Swede of Princeton led the field by finishing first.
William F. Hoppe has held the billiard championship for fifteen years, preserving his status as a dominant figure in the sport. The record reflects his long tenure at the top, showcasing consistent success through multiple eras of competition.
Tred Tarkelson, star pitcher of the Pellcans, pivots from baseball to film stardom, signaling an end to a major league baseball future.
The School Boxing Commission in Toronto is planning a new high school boxing body to oversee student bouts and safety standards. Officials say the move aims to regulate amateur matches and improve training oversight for youth athletes.
English ace Marty Vardon has gained five pounds after arriving in the United States for a long exhibition tour. He reports enjoying the tour and the change of scenery as he adapts to American courses and crowds.
The Indianapolis club sends pitcher George Gaw to Milwaukee in exchange for pitcher Rube Lutzke. Both clubs complete the deal outlining a straightforward player-for-player exchange.
Brooklyn National League champions scout Larry Sutton re signs with the Robins to continue scouting duties and reinforce the team staff. Sutton previously served as a key evaluator for the Brooklyn club.
A crowded page reports robberies at Oak store in Glidden, farm accidents and deaths across Iowa, farm law actions, charity giving for Armenian orphans, a county fair sale, and a Burlington railroad yard robbery totaling $1,500. Names include Ralph Gibson, Miss Ida Molley, Hines, and John W. Gray among others.
For years druggists note Swamp Root's success as a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is marketed as a physician prescription and strengthening remedy. Sold by druggists on merit it claims to aid natural organ function. Send ten cents for a sample bottle by writing Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY and mention the paper.
The pickerel, a small pike or young of larger pikes, most often the banded pickerel under 12 inches. The muskellunge, a very large pike reaching eight feet, found in northern North American fresh waters and famed as a game fish.
The advertisement touts Green's August Flower as a trusted cure for nervous dyspepsia constipation indigestion torpid liver dizziness headaches and related fermentation symptoms. It cites fifty four years of use in thousands of households worldwide and claims no failure in relief. Sold everywhere.
End of Elizabeth Ann's first month at school she brings home a perfect attendance card and reports that five children forgot to come to school. The girl explains there were five absent minded children that month.
Historic ad states Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and related deafness via internal liquid entering the bloodstream to reduce inflammation. Claims no other diseases cured. Mentions B J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and free circulars from druggists.
A reflective piece contrasts two paths in life with witty paradoxes. The speaker stages a dialogue about identities Such as Could Be May Be Has Been Might Have Been and non Are, exploring aspiration and failure through clever wordplay.
Advertising copy touts Cuticura Soap for clear complexion and soft hands, with Cuticura Ointment for scalp and skin. The trio includes Cuticura Talcum for a fragrant, appealing finish.
A Detroit Free Press quote defines a narrow minded man as one who refuses to admit it yet believes the world would improve if only he existed.
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